Homeschooling Parents

Your setup guide

Everything you bought, start to finish. Take it one step at a time. Nothing here needs a programmer.

You have the full assistant setup, the help that comes with it, and the updates as it improves. This page walks you from nothing to a working assistant that already knows your family.

Read the whole page once before you start. It takes about fifteen minutes from here.

Before you begin

You need two things

A Mac or a Windows computer that stays on during the school day.
A Claude account. This is the one ongoing cost, paid to Claude, not to us. The assistant runs on your computer under your own account and nothing leaves your machine.

Then spend two minutes on these three answers. The setup asks for them, and it is easier to have them ready than to invent them live.

What you want to call your assistant. Any name you like.
How you want it to talk to you. Short and plain, warm and chatty, formal, whatever fits your house.
Anything it should never bring up. Topics you want off the table, permanently.

If you do not have answers yet, that is fine. The setup will help you pick as you go.

1.Install Claude Code

This is the program the assistant runs inside. Pick your computer.

Mac

Open Terminal. Press Command and the space bar, type Terminal, then press return. Paste this line and press return again.

curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash

Windows

Open PowerShell from the Start menu. Paste this and press enter.

curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.cmd -o install.cmd && install.cmd && del install.cmd

It takes a few minutes and prints a lot of text while it works. That is normal. When it stops and gives you your prompt back, you are done with this step. If you already had Claude Code installed, skip straight to step 2.

2.Set up your assistant

Stay in the same window. Paste the block for your computer and press return. This single line downloads the setup and starts it.

Mac

mkdir -p ~/my-agent && cd ~/my-agent && git clone https://github.com/jaredrhod/fullstack-agent && cd fullstack-agent && claude "set me up"

Windows

$d="$env:USERPROFILE\.local\bin"; if (Test-Path "$d\claude.exe") { $env:Path="$d;$env:Path" }; New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path $HOME\my-agent | Out-Null; cd $HOME\my-agent; if (-not (Test-Path fullstack-agent\fullstack-agent.md)) { Invoke-WebRequest https://github.com/jaredrhod/fullstack-agent/archive/refs/heads/main.zip -OutFile fsa.zip; Expand-Archive fsa.zip . -Force; New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path fullstack-agent | Out-Null; Get-ChildItem fullstack-agent-main -Force | Copy-Item -Destination fullstack-agent -Recurse -Force; Remove-Item fullstack-agent-main -Recurse -Force; Remove-Item fsa.zip }; cd fullstack-agent; if (Get-Command claude -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) { claude "set me up" } else { Write-Output "Install Claude Code first from step 1, then paste this again." }

If Windows says Claude is not found, the install from step 1 did not finish. Redo step 1, then paste this block again.

3.Answer the questions

The setup talks you through the rest itself. It asks a short series of questions in the same window.

The mechanical ones you can answer as you go. Push to talk or hands free, which voice, whether you want a face. Push to talk is the usual pick and it is easier in a house with kids around.

The personal ones are the three you wrote down earlier. Your name, your assistant's name, how you want it to talk to you, and anything it should never bring up. Read them straight off your notes.

One thing worth doing here. When it asks about your household, give it the real details. Your children's names and ages, what grade each one is working at, the curriculum you use, and your state. It remembers all of it, and every answer after this gets better because of it.

4.Say hello

When it finishes, it greets you by name. That is your assistant, running on your machine, ready.

Ask it something real before you close the window. Not a test question, a real one.

"Plan next week for both kids. We are on lesson 14 in math and chapter 6 in science."
"What does our state require for record keeping this year?"
"Draft a transcript for my oldest. She is finishing seventh grade."
"What is overdue right now?"

If it answers well, you are done. If it does not know something, tell it, and it will hold onto the answer.

Using it day to day

Just talk to it, the way you would talk to a capable assistant who has been in the house a while.

It remembers. Say a thing once, a new curriculum, a change in schedule, a child's reading level, and it keeps it.
Correct it out loud. If it gets something wrong, tell it the right answer. You do not need us for small fixes.
Start fresh any time. A new conversation does not erase what it learned.
Ask for the week, the records, the paperwork. That is the point of it. The planning, the tracking, the state requirements, drafted while you do something else.

Keeping it healthy

Leave the computer on. Overnight and weekends too. The assistant only works when the machine does.
Keep the Claude account active. It is the engine. If that payment lapses, the assistant stops until it is restored.
Let us handle updates. Do not install things on top of it or move it to another computer without checking with us first. It can break what it has learned.
Back up the folder. Everything it knows about your family lives there.

If something goes wrong

It stopped responding. Check the computer is awake first. That is the cause most of the time.
It is giving wrong answers. Tell it the right one. If it keeps happening, note what you asked and email us.
It will not connect. Check your Claude account is active and paid.
Anything else. Do not fight with it. Tell us what happened and we will sort it out.

Your license

Your copy is licensed to your household. It is registered to your purchase, and the setup help, the updates, and the support come with it. Passing the files to someone else does not pass along any of that.